Axway Makes it Easier to Validate Digital Credentials for Civilian
Government Agencies

Company First to Market with Standards-Based Digital Credentialing
Solution; Now Based on Leading SCVP Protocol

July 12, 2010 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Axway, the Business Interaction Networks company, has enhanced its Validation
Authority Suite to further smooth the process of validating employee
credentials in sensitive environments, including civilian government
agencies. Grounded in the Server-based Certificate Validation Protocol
(SCVP), the offering introduces the capability to both authenticate and
authorize end-users or applications, in the context of protecting access
to sensitive information, based on predefined rules.

The U.S. government mandates that Federal employees and contractors with
access to Federal facilities and information systems have authorizing
credentials. In particular, Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12
(HSPD-12) requires a unified security process governing access to all
Federal facilities and information systems. This is the impetus behind
the roll out of Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards to all
Federal employees and contractors.

To meet this need, Axway’s Validation
Authority Suite is a standards-based solution that allows agencies
to validate PIV credentials, regardless of where they are issued. This
is critical to ensuring the applicability of PIV-based
authentication/authorization credentials across multiple agencies,
including those who host their own internal Public Key Infrastructures
(PKIs).

“Strictly controlling access to sensitive data and facilities is in
everyone’s best interest. Our intent with this updated offering is to
make it even easier for government agencies to help promote the usage of
smart cards for mission-critical physical and logical access
applications, by making it possible to validate them across disparate
agencies,” said Dr. Taher Elgamal, chief security officer for Axway.
“With our experience in implementing digital certificate validation
solutions for the U.S. Department of Defense and other government and
financial institutions, we believe we are offering a solution that is
unique in this market.”

Axway Validation
Authority Suite protects mission-critical infrastructures by
ensuring that revoked or invalid credentials cannot be used for secure
email, smart card login, network access or other sensitive electronic
transactions. In addition to support for different deployment models,
the Validation Authority suite provides robust performance and
cost-effective scalability across a wide range of operational
environments, including hardware-software appliances and solutions for
distributed, hosted or bandwidth-constrained environments.

Axway Validation
Authority Suite consists of several products that provide
certificate validation for both standard and custom desktop and server
applications.